Sounds great. I want an openly opinionated wikipedia where a supposed fact is acknowledged as known to possibly exist even when the source is not known (but this should be indicated), where it is Ok to mention an opinion (also labelled) and where nobody deletes "unimportant" pages/facts others write.
Can't al LLM just detect a mathematical reasoning task then produce a formula (not even display it in the production mode) to invoke on an external service engineered for formal logical and mathematical computations?
In many of these examples it produces the wrong formula because it misunderstands the word problem, so a computer algebra system wouldn't help - garbage in, garbage out.
The problem here is more serious than mathematics: the quantitative reasoning itself is highly unreliable.
In this case, because XFCE is based on GTK, and the backend for GTK has gotten a lot of support for native Wayland recently. Starting from scratch would probably end up duplicating a lot more code than necessary, whereas supporting both in one codebase helps keep the featureset in lockstep for both x11 and Wayland users.
We should better introduce $50, $100, $500, $1000 and $5000 coins. I'd love my entire salary to come in coins and to be able to pay for any purchase in coins conveniently.
I understand the romanticism of coins and the nostalgia of coin collectors, but the experience of actually using them is just so much worse than bills. When I go to Canada I immediately relinquish my loonies and toonies to my Canadian friends because they're such a pain to deal with.
A well-designed set of coins is nice to use, but this is unfortunately rare.
Canada and the USA certainly don't have it. The Euro doesn't, which is odd as the currency is so new -- why are the 10, 20 and 50 cent coins so similar?
The Pound Sterling is generally well-designed, with sets of coins in copper-silver-gold materials, and easily distinguishable sequences of shapes and different sizes. The Danish and Swedish coins also work, in the Danish case with a hole to distinguish some denominations.
I found Danish and Swedish coins to be just as annoying as American coins. They are difficult to tell apart immediately. The Pound and its denominations, I agree, are the best I've encountered so far in real world use.
I wish America would get off its butt about getting rid of the penny. It's such a waste of resources. We don't need it. In fact, Ecuador uses USD as well and they, a country with much lower GDP and prices, don't use our penny. They round up.
Only a certain subset of people would think that universally, a coin that looks bigger would be half the value of the smaller one.
In Argentina back when coins were worth anything, from 1c to 50c they would grow in size, also would have the value in big clear numbers, and varying colors. The 1 peso coin would be a big smaller in diameter but substantially heavier and different with two colors.
Coins in the US from this “obviously the smallest one is the least valuable” mindset didn’t make sense. Also seems like no one cares about any coin but the quarter for anything other than trading them. Any coin operated machine I’ve seen takes 25c
I'm British and I fully agree that Euro coins are too similar. It always irritates me when I'm travelling in the Eurozone. The coins are different sizes but they're not different enough and it always takes me a moment to confirm which coin is which. A short moment, but a moment nonetheless.
British coins aren't like this. They're all extremely distinct, with big differences in size, colour, weight, and even shape (the 50p and 20p coins aren't circular). It's completely impossible to mistake one coin for another, even at a glance. Maybe I'm biased but I think they're exceptionally well designed. Rule Britannia!
The 50c isn't double the size of the 10c, it's 18% wider. It has the same edge texture as the 10c coin. It's 1mm larger than the €1 coin, and 1.5mm smaller than the €2 coin.
The 20c coin has 7 subtle indents, and is only 1mm larger than the 5c coin. Can you tell the difference when your hands are cold, or if you're wearing gloves? (I understand people lose their sense of touch in old age.)
Meanwhile the 20p and 50p are heptagonal, with a similar 20% size increase.
The 5p and 10p have a 26% size increase. They have milled edges, unlike the 1p and 2p.
What are you talking about? The Euro coins were designed for and with the blind community.
I can grab any coin blindly and know exactly which one it is?
Same with the bills and their relative sizes. I still think the EU messed up the bills; they’re super ugly and feel plastic, but for the blind the Euro is insanely well designed.
The heptagonal shape of the 20p and 50p make them much easier to distinguish from other coins by both sight and touch. I can see the different coins in a heap, and I feel the difference even through gloves.
The copper and gold-coloured Euro coins all look very similar.
I think it might be easier for the blind to differentiate them than people with normal vision tbh. The designs on the face are all quite similar, but the designs on the edges are all unique.
Background: I'm British and live in the UK but have spent a fair amount of time in the US over the years.
I love the dollar bill. I'd really love to have a £1 and/or £2 note in the UK. The moment you need any reasonable number of coins to buy anything they become unwieldy in your pocket and you can carry enough dollar bills to be useful without there being a chunk of metal digging into your leg.
I've hears arguments against relating to durability but those are all predate the new plastic notes we have.
For some reason I get a load of pushback when suggesting that a £1 or £2 note would be nice to have.
I think with polymer notes, they might last until withdrawn by UK standards, but that's a unique factor of how fast they cycle their banknotes out. I think even 5 year old English notes (the paper GBP50 with Watt on it) are at the phase where you have to take them to a bank and replace them with polymer ones.
America has always tried to avoid calling back old notes, likely to avoid creating an upset in places where they're a store of value overseas. This means the old ones can circulate basically forever. I can recall my brother getting a $10 note of the 1934 type in a normal transaction in about 2015, and 1977-series $100s seemed strangely common into the 1990s and 2000s. So the survival rates at 10 and 20 years are relevant for American paper in a way that maybe don't apply in the UK.
They are also far more durable than bills, specially lower-denomination bills like the $1 note that wears out quickly because it is used more than higher-denomination bills.
I am curious what the cost difference is to manufacture a coin vs a banknote. Certainly the penny is probably going to not be worth much more than a penny in melt value, but for stuff like quarters if I can make 5 bills that each last 5 years that may be more preferential than a single coin that lasts 25 years because it gives better control over the money supply.
I use them almost exclusively as collectors items for whatever country I visit. And nothing else. America is mostly cashless nowadays anyway. My thought is that at least in America, we will not be rid of coins for another few decades at least . Because gauging by the current climate it looks like the only way we start to phase some of these denominations out is when inflation makes them impractical and useless.
They are mostly relegated to a jar that you take to the coin exchange once every X years. I honestly don’t remember the last time I actually carried coins and paid for something with them (aside from receiving them as change and dumping in said jar) but it was over a decade ago that I used to actually carry change in my pocket for use. Could have probably been two decades ago almost.
Probably the most actionable use I have for coins in todays era is having a quarter for the deposits for the carts at the Aldi lot.
And maybe, instead of common metals and assigning them arbitrary value, we could make them out of rare metals (with a little bit of alloying for hardness) and people can trade them for their relative abundance or rarity!
The values of nickel, zinc, and copper are far from arbitrary, and oftentimes the metal value of a coin is higher than its face value. The US penny is >2¢ of zinc and copper.
Besides, metals like lithium corrode too easily, and other rare metals like zirconium/niobium/tantalum/REEs are intrinsically scarce so minting coins from them would be wasteful. Arguably using zinc, nickel, and copper for coins is wasteful, and all coins should be some sort of stainless steel or aluminum. (Like the aluminum Japan 1 yen piece.)
Then your cash becomes a store of value. Exactly what the government doesn't want. Not least as people will make a living melting down coins as the governments expense.
You tend not to walk around with coins on you that are worth a lot. Same thing with cash; most people aren't walking around with wads of $100 bills. That's something you keep in a safe until you need to exchange it for smaller units.
How are you going to prevent fraudulent double spending of these digital coins? You'd have to invent some kind of Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus method.
Sure, but then you’d need a way for all participants to agree on which transactions are valid. Maybe like a chain of blocks that hold transaction data, and each block is cryptographically linked to the previous one. Sounds pretty difficult. I doubt that anyone would be able to create anything like that any time soon, if ever.
In the year 2045, the world had transformed into a sprawling metropolis of concrete and steel, where the sun rarely pierced the thick haze of pollution. The government, in its quest for absolute control, had implemented a system known as the KYC Protocol—Know Your Customer. It was a measure designed to eliminate fraud and ensure security, but it had morphed into a bureaucratic nightmare.
Every citizen was required to stand in line for KYC checks before making any purchase, no matter how trivial. The most mundane items, like a pack of gum, had become luxuries that demanded hours of waiting. The lines snaked around the block, a serpentine mass of weary faces, each person clutching their identification cards, biometric scans, and digital wallets.
Maya stood in line, her stomach grumbling as she watched the clock tick away. She had been waiting for nearly two hours, the fluorescent lights above flickering intermittently, casting a sickly glow on the faces around her. The air was thick with impatience and the faint scent of despair. She glanced at the digital screen mounted on the wall, which displayed the current wait time: 45 minutes remaining.
“Next!” barked a voice from the front, and the line shuffled forward. Maya’s heart raced. She had only come to buy a pack of gum, a small indulgence to brighten her day. But the KYC checks had turned this simple act into a test of endurance.
As she inched closer to the front, she overheard snippets of conversations. A man lamented about the time he lost waiting to buy a loaf of bread, while a woman recounted her experience of being denied a purchase because her biometric data had been flagged as “inconclusive.” The stories were all too familiar, a shared trauma that bound them together in this dystopian reality.
Finally, it was Maya’s turn. She stepped up to the kiosk, a cold, metallic structure that loomed over her like a sentinel. A screen flickered to life, displaying a series of prompts. She placed her hand on the scanner, feeling the chill of the glass against her skin. The machine whirred and beeped, analyzing her fingerprints, her palm veins, and her heartbeat.
“Verification in progress,” the screen announced, the words flashing ominously. Maya held her breath, the seconds stretching into an eternity. She could feel the eyes of the people behind her, their impatience palpable.
“Error,” the machine suddenly blared, and Maya’s heart sank. “Biometric data does not match records. Please step aside for further verification.”
Panic surged through her as she was ushered to a separate area, a sterile room filled with flickering screens and stern-faced officials. The line she had waited in for so long now felt like a cruel joke. She glanced back at the kiosk, where the next person was already being processed, oblivious to her plight.
Hours passed as she sat in the cold room, her mind racing with thoughts of what could happen next. Would she be denied the gum forever? Would she be flagged as a potential threat? The KYC Protocol had become a tool of oppression, a way to control the masses under the guise of safety.
Finally, a woman in a crisp uniform approached her, a tablet in hand. “We need to conduct a manual review of your data,” she said, her voice devoid of empathy. “Please provide your identification and answer a series of questions.”
Maya nodded, her heart heavy. She had come for a simple pleasure, but now she was trapped in a web of bureaucracy. As she answered the questions, she realized that the world had become a place where even the smallest joys were overshadowed by the weight of surveillance and control.
After what felt like an eternity, she was finally cleared. The official handed her a slip of paper, a token of her victory. “You may now proceed to purchase your item,” she said, her tone flat.
Maya stepped back into the bustling world outside, the slip clutched tightly in her hand. She made her way to the nearest store, where the shelves were stocked with brightly colored packages of gum. As she reached for a pack, she couldn’t shake the feeling of unease that lingered in her chest.
In a world where freedom had been traded for security, the simple act of buying gum had become a reminder of the chains that bound them all. And as she walked out of the store, the taste of mint and sugar on her tongue, she vowed to remember the struggle it took to reclaim that small piece of joy in a world gone mad.
Currently this is possible by using web-components. If you like to make the client do the heavy lift, you can do that using the web-components and keep the pages as simple as possible. Feel free to open a discussion on github issues (https://github.com/brisa-build/brisa/issues) if you are missing anything.
> an active attitude towards system complexity: Just keep it to a minimum!
I would rather want a rich standard library which exposes all the common system facilities, algorithms and formats conveniently - the so-called "batteries included" approach.
Ideally I believe SmallTalk should be a layer of the operating system (but not try to replace the whole OS and implementations).
Let's be honest. A person who would habitually loose more than half of their monthly income to betting or other things they would do better without is mentally disabled and should not be given money in the first place. Instead they should be given professional care like senile elderly people and underage children receive. The rest can invest their money whatever the way they see fit.
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